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It’s time for Episode 22 of the Superior Spider-Talk podcast! In this episode, Dan Gvozden and I talk about Superior Spider-Man #20, provide our final thoughts on the “Arms of the Octopus” special, and revisit the classic “Arms of the Octopus” arc from Spectacular Spider-Man #73-79. Download the episode from iTunes or our Podomatic web

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From its very first issue, Scarlet Spider has featured the tagline, “All of the Power, None of the Responsibility.” And yet, 23 issues in and only two installments away from the series finale in December, the “power/no responsibility” tagline feels like a gross over-simplification of Kaine’s journey. When he

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Is there something going on with Thor this weekend that’s led me to write about him on three different sites? Hmm…. anyway, if you’re not burned out on the Norse God of Thunder, check out my latest Gimmick or Good? column at the mighty Comics Should Be Good. This

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My celebration of Thor continues this weekend with a guest post I provided for the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization, aka Sequart.org, about Thor’s “identity crisis” during the first few years of existence. In this article, I examine how the original Journey Into Mystery creative team of Stan Lee,

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I’ve started a bit of a trend over the past year whenever a new Marvel movie is released where I post thematic content on Chasing Amazing related to Spider-Man and his relationship to the film’s titular character. Perhaps it’s just a desperate attempt for me to be a part

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The past year has Chasing Amazing’s most successful, with many new readers jumping aboard and some long-time ones becoming more engaged with the site (and I even co-host a podcast with one of them). Since you’ve all been such great sports about reading about whatever random issues of Spider-Man

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Episode 21 of Superior Spider-Talk is now up and ready to be downloaded. This episode is the final batch of interviews I collected from my experience at New York Comic Con in October. We’ve dubbed this one our NYCC “Classic Artists” edition, and it features Tom Lyle (long-time Spider-Man

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In some of my recent write-ups of Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, I mentioned that I had resigned myself to the fact that the writers of both those series, Dan Slott and Chris Yost respectively, had taken Spider Ock far enough along a dark path that there was

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After a steady stream of pulse-pounding issues filled with SHOCKING new developments, time travel, explosions and deaths, Superior Spider-Man #20 is a necessary step back for the series and a reminder that even if Peter Parker is “dead,” the rest of his supporting universe is very much alive and

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Episode 20 of Superior Spider-Talk is here! This episode is another batch of interviews I collected during my experience at New York Comic Con in October. We’ve dubbed this one our NYCC “Writer’s Room” edition, and it features Matt Kindt (current writer on the Marvel Knights Spider-Man mini-series), Frad

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